Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-12
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commissioned officer is always accepted
against a private.
Such a thing as social intercourse be-
tween private and an officer could not be
dreamed of. Soldiers are treated socially
as if they were mere animals or did not
exist. The least offences are grave offences,
and from every breach of discipline there
is the guard house. A habitual inebriate
is kicked out of the army. Sometimes, to
secure his discharge, man will MAIN him
self. If discovered he is very severely pun
ished. So, too, with those who feign sick
ness.
Speaking generally of the life, an old
soldier in all its aspects and comparing
it with that of Il mechanic, considering the
amount of spare time soldier has, his
comforts, the care that is taken of him, the
prospect for promotion, the United States
need never be in want of honest and cour-
ageous men to fill the ranks of its army"
MIR. GRADy'S NEW ENGLAND SPEECH.
The annual dinner of the New England
Society at Delmonico's, last evening, in eel
ebration Of Forefathers' Day, was attended
Russell, the President of the Society, Occu
pied the chair. Seated near him as guests
of the Society, were the Rev. DR.. Talmage,
Henry w. Grady, of the Atlanta ConstitN-
ton, Gen. Sherman, Maj.-Gen. Schofeld,
the Rev. DR.. H. J. Van Dyke, William
Walter Phelps, and these presidents of sister
societies: Thomas l.. James, st. David's
Society; j. j. O'Donnohue, st. Patrick's
Society; John S. Kennedy, st. Andrews
Society; Carlisle Norwood, Jr., st. Nicholas
Society; Judge II. G. Van Worst, Holland
Society John Winslow, New England So
ciety of Brooklyn. Speeches were made by
the President and number of the guests,
including Mr.. Grady, who spoke in response
to the toast, 'The New South" and created
great applause by his remarks in favor of
national harmony.
MIR. Grady took for his text the words of
Benjamin H. Hill in Tammany Hall in 1866:
"There wasa South of secession and slave
ry-that South is dead. There is a South of
union and freedom-that South is living,
breathing, growing every hour" He ex-
pressed his appreciation Of the fact that he
was the first Southerner invited to speak at
then said, in part:
The Cavalier as we'll as the Puritan was
on the continent in its early days, and "up
and able to be about" But both Puritan
and Cavalier were lost in the storm of their
first revolution, and the American citizen,
supplanting both and stronger than either,
took possession of the republic bought by
their common blood and fashioned in wis
dom, ID charged himself with teaching
men free government and establishing the
voice of the people as of the voice of God.
[Applause. Great types, like valuable
plants, are slow to flower and fruit. But
from the union of these coonists, from the
Strengthening Of their purposes and the
crossing of their blood, slow perfecting
through century, came he who stands as
the first typical American, the first who
comprehended within himself all the gen
tleness and strength, all the majesty and
grace of this republic-Abraham Lincoln.
Loud and long continued applause. He
was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in
his ardent nature were fused the virtues Of
both, and in the depths of his great soul the
faults of both were lost. Renewed ap-
plause.
In speaking to the toast with which
YOU have honored me I accept the term,
"The New South" as in no sense disparag-
ing the Old. Dear to me, sir, is the home
of my childhood and the traditions of my
people. There is New South, not through
protest against the Old, but because Of new
conditions, new adjustments, and, if you
please, new ideas and aspirations. It is to
this that ! address myself. ask you, gen.
tlemen, to picture if you can the footsore
soldier, who buttoning up his faded gray
jacket, the parole which was taken, testimo-
ny to his children of his fidelity and faith,
turned his face Southwark from Appomat-
tox in April, 1865. What does he fnd-let
me ask YOU, who went to your homes, eager
to find all the welcome you had justly earn
ed, full payment for your four years sacri-.
fice-what does he find when he reaches the
home he left four years before? He finds
his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his
slaves freed, his stock killed, his barns emp
ty, his trade destroyed, his money worth
less, his social system, feudal in its magnif-
cence, swept away, his people without law
or legal status, his comrades slain, and the
burdens of others heavy upon his shoulders.
Crushed by defeat, his very traditions, gone.
terial or training-and, beside all this, con-
fronted with the gravest problem that ever
met human intelligence-the establishing OF
a status for the vast body of his liberated
slaves.
What does he do-this hero in gray with
a heart of gold-does he sit down in sullen-
ness and despair Not for day. Surely
God, who had scourged him in his prosperi-
ty, inspired him in his adversely! AS ruin
was never before so overwhelming, never
was restoration sWifter. The soldierstepped
from the trenches into the furroW; horses
that had charged Federal guns marched be-
1OTG lQC plOW. anu ucluS llIdG 1Cu WIN
human blood in April were green with the
harvest in June; women reared in luxury
cut up their dresses and made breeches for
their husbands, and with patience and
herOism that fits woman always as a gar
ment, gave their hands to work.
But what is the sum of our work? We
have found out that in the general summing
up the negro counts more than he did as
slave. We have planted the school-house
on the hilltop, and made it free to white
and black. We have sowed towns and
cities in place Of theories and put business
above politics. [Applause.] We have chal,
lenged your spinners in Massachusetts and
your iron makers in Pennsylvania We
have learned that the s4OO,O0O,0O0 annually
received from our cotton crop will make
US rich, when the supplies that make it are
home raised. We have reduced the COM
merciai rate of interest from twenty-four to
six per cent. and are floating four per cent.
bonds. We have learned that one North
ern immigrant is worth fifty foreigners and
have smoothed the path to the Southwark,
wiped out the place where Mason and Dix
on's line used to be, and hung our latch
strings out to you and yours. Prolonged
applause. We have established thrift in
city and country. We have fallen in love
with work. We have restored comfort to
homes from which culture and elegance
never departed.
But have we kept faith with you? In
the fullest sense, yes. When Leesurrender-
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